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dunebroom |
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Habit | Shrubs, unarmed, gland-dotted almost throughout. |
Stems | gnarled, highly branched, pubescent. |
Leaves | alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present; petiolate; leaflets [5–]29–61, mostly opposite, stipels absent, blades suborbiculate to oblong-ovate, margins entire, surfaces pubescent. |
Inflorescences | 6–15-flowered, terminal, spikes; bracts present; bracteoles absent, often represented by 2 sessile glands. |
Flowers | usually papilionaceous, sometimes apetalous or only banner present; calyx campanulate, tube 10-ribbed, lobes 5; corolla absent or vestigial banner present [petals 5], yellow; stamens [9]10, monadelphous; anthers dorsifixed. |
Fruits | legumes, sessile, somewhat compressed, obovoid-ellipsoid, indehiscent, scattered glands present, strigulose. |
Seed | 1, slightly compressed, ellipsoid. |
Errazurizia |
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Distribution |
Mexico; Arizona; South America (Chile) |
Discussion | Species 4 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | Philippi: Anales Univ. Chile, I, Mem. Ci. Lit. 41: 688. (1872) |
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